Thursday, 15 August 2013

With a tow, row, row, row, row...

This morning I realized that my last posting was more than a week before. Actually that's too long but this week a very special unit attracted me and kept me at the workbench. You might want to use the Youtube-Link below before you scroll down. It's the sound that I've been whistling for the last days:

Without any doubt most of you know this tune very well: The unit I painted mainly over the last weeks is 16 men of British Grenadiers from the American war of independence:

With a tow, row, row, row, row to the British Grenadiers...

The miniatures are from the excellent range of Wargames Foundry and are beautifully detailed. Especially the faces and the eyes have so much expression that I tried to outline the details better than usual. Because they can rarely be spotted on the gaming table I refuse to paint them mostly. Anyway those brave grenadiers disabused me.

The commanding officer and two of his grenadiers.

But with the other things I stayed traditional. With only a few exceptions I used Vallejo Model Colours to paint the boys and afterwards I shaded them with Armypainter Quickshade (dark tone). As you have noticed probably I painted them with different facing colours because I imagined them as a combined battalion of the grenadier companies of different regiments.

The right flank.

Since the buff faced regiments used to wear buff waistcoats and trousers as well those soldiers stick out a bit. Actually I'm not too satisfied with the result of buff so I'm not sure whether I should paint buff faced regiments in the future.

The left flank.

On the other hand there are some green and royal blue faced regiments which I like much better. Even the black ones turned out rather well which I'll need as grenadiers from the 84th Regiment of Foot which fought during the Penobscot Expedition of 1779.

In a final step I'll have to finish the bases during the next days but the varnish has been a bit gluey still. But I couldn't wait to take the photos and write this post...

Apropos Penobscot Expedition:

The weekend after the next we'll have a very special club meeting. We'll hold the test match for our this year's Crisis presentation game which will losely cover the happenings of the Penobscot Expedition. Actually very losely since we'll be playing with much more troops and a rather freely refined progress of events. Anyway we'll have a really large battlefield and about thirty to fifty units which will be great fun I presume.

But on the other hand I'll have to finish some board tiles and maybe some more Scotsmen for the game so I'm not sure whether I'll be able to present you my efforts. But you'll see some pictures after the great game at the latest.

Member of the Team for historical Simulations

The "THS - Team for historical simulations" is a small, multinational group of wargamers simulating historical battles as well as fictional conflicts. The team meets every other Friday night in Erkrath-Hochdahl near Duesseldorf.I joined the team in 2012 and since then I have the pleasure to share a lot of hobby time with these great fellows.

Three times in a row participant of Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge

At the beginning of the year Curt from Analogue Hobbies organizes a painting challenge for miniature painters. This year I had the great pleasure to participate.
Look here for Curt's site and standings.

About me

Actually my name is Stefan and I'm from Germany. Besides being the husband of a lovely wife and the father of two charming daughters I've been doing wargaming for over 15 years. Smallscale modelling even longer...
On this blog I want to share my workbench with you and introduce some of my projects and results.
I hope you enjoy this view whicht might be at arm's length sometimes and personal some other times.